Things from the above years that are good, but I don't ever listen to because of better options from the same band:Birth A.D. – Stillbirth of a Nation (excellent EP, obsoleted by the full-length)Imprecation – Jehovah Denied (excellent demo, obsoleted by the full-length)Katharsis – Fourth Reich (good, but VVorld VVithout End is the one I always reach for by this band)Cruciamentum – Suspended in Desolation (the demo was better)All of the Master albums (good, but the s/t is still the best)Asphyx – Death The Brutal Way (good, but The Rack is better)

The time for an object to fall .0254 meters (one inch) is .07 seconds.

Signals commanding conscious action travel at 20 m/s.

This means that, ignoring the time for the light waves to travel from the ruler to Crow's eyes, provided that the distance from his eyes to the tip of his fingers is less than 1.4 meters, he's within nerve transmission speed.

Without predicting when the ruler will drop, one inch is still clearly bullshit. World-class sprinters have a reaction time of over 0.15 seconds (Usain Bolt's world-record reaction time off the blocks was 0.165 seconds); in that time, the ruler would fall 0.1334025 meters (5.3 inches).

It's pop candy-metal, but still a good listen, with a combination of haunting darkness in its melodic lines and energetic destruction from its rhythm section. I'd choose it over a million 3-chord "war metal" bands any day.

Lantern... eh, I really can't do that album at all. Boring-ass doom metal colliding into speed-metal, with the most off-putting vocals in the history of the genre.

My unsolicited opinion:Nuke chasm altogether. People who want idle chatter can go to their social media pages.As for Commerce vs. News, the following litmus test: is the band that's advertising/being advertised good? If so, News. If not, Commerce. Keep Audiofile as is, for obvious reasons.

God and Beast is incredible. "Lucifer, Morning Star", "The Law", and "Between Venus and Mars" are some of the best electronic songs ever. "Total War" is also great, of course, but it pales next to those three.

The rest is good but not essential. If you want more, your best bets are "Children of the Black Sun" and "Back to Mono".

Well, at Darken isn't destroying one of his good albums (by which I mean everything up to and including "Following the Voice of Blood") by re-recording it, like most bands who do the stupid re-recording thing do.

In an attempt to atone for exposing you all to the faggotry that is "Amorphis doing acoustic jazz covers of songs from their first album", I will tell you that you need to listen to this post-Angelcorpse project from Gene Palubicki. Now.

"Edict of the Antichrist Elect" by Palubicki's new band, Perdition Temple, is supposedly material that was written to be the next Angelcorpse album that was never realized because of the band's second dissolution, and some aspects of the album are recognizably Angelcorpse, such as nearly constant speed, militaristic march-blasting percussion, and Morbid Angel inspired high-speed riffs, but there is a major difference in how songs are constructed. Whereas Angelcorpse tended to bow to the heavy metal need for one or two ear-grabbing, catchy riffs to define a song, with other riffs acting as support between fist-pumping choruses and the song's "iconic" riffs, Edict of the Antichrist Elect takes a more pure death metal approach, with no "catchy" riffs or choruses and more intricate song structures, with frequent riff changes, sometimes gradual, and sometimes jarring; a favorite tactic of the band is to build up gradual riff changes before violently slamming back to an earlier riff. Structuring songs with no clearly "iconic" passages results in the album requiring careful attention, and being confusing to listen to at first, but the overall effect ends up being more savage than even Angelcorpse's fiercest moments, since there's not an easily hummable moment always around the corner; rather, there is just more jarring angularity, both at a structural level and at a riff level.

The Karelian Isthmus/Privilege of Evil is pretty awesome but fuck these guys. I clicked on the link and saw acoustic guitars and a chubby dude blowing a flute and I instantly closed it. Cynical, I'm almost pissed off that you would alert us to such gayness.

Oh, you missed the "best" parts, like the chick smiling into the camera while shaking a mariachi, and the singer (whose name I don't actually know) "singing" one of the riffs from late in the song with a jazz-style "la la la la lie lie lie".

Also, the crowd is hilarious. Especially the goth chick who nods along in a desperate attempt to look like she cares at all, even though it's clear that she's bored out of her mind.